ODM meets over Tribunal rift
 
By KENNETH OGOSIA
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday night held a meeting with ODM ministers and assistant ministers at his Nairobi office to forestall divisions in the party over the Tribunal Bill.
The meeting was held ahead of another meeting with President Kibaki on Tuesday. The talks came amidst differing opinions on [...]

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I am rock steady and nobody’s puppet, says Khalwale
Agriculture Minister William Ruto remains at the firing end over a scam involving the alleged sale of maize from the National Cereals and Produce Board to bogus millers and brokers. While PAC Chairman Bonny Khalwale insists he has damning evidence implicating Ruto, Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba [...]

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MPs defy Kibaki and Raila on the Hague
 
By LUCAS BARASA and BERNARD NAMUNANE
Parliament could not get enough MPs to take a vote on Tuesday on the Tribunal Bill as there were only 119 MPs in the House, 29 short of the quorum required for a vote on a proposal to change the Constitution.
MPs defied efforts [...]

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HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday named his party’s roster of cabinet ministers, who have the unenviable task of fixing a shattered economy while sharing power with President Robert Mugabe.
 
is set to become prime minister on Wednesday, with his cabinet nominees sworn in on Friday, in a deal meant to end [...]

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WASHINGTON, (AFP) - President Barack Obama warned Congress of “catastrophe” if it did not pass his stimulus plan this week, as America’s dire economic plight cast a somber shadow over his first news conference.
Obama piled more pressure on lawmakers to complete a long political tug-of-war over the 800-billion-dollar-plus package, with the once mighty US economy [...]

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By Simone Giuliani
WHITTLESEA, Australia (Reuters) - Weary firefighters and rescuers pulled the remains of dozens of people from charred buildings on Monday as the toll from Australia’s deadliest bushfires rose to 171, police said.
“Everybody’s gone. Everybody’s gone. Everybody. Their houses are gone. They’re all dead in the houses there. Everybody’s dead,” cried survivor Christopher Harvey [...]

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By Standard Team
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga were under immense pressure last night to deliver their troops to Parliament, where a crucial vote to decide whether post-election offenders are tried locally or at the International Criminal Court sitting at The Hague, Netherlands, was deferred for one more day.
It was do or die as [...]

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By Joseph Saronge
The economic crisis has hit the world over and its effects have reached far beyond any economist’s imagination.
So what really caused the economic slamp, whats the way forward for Africa  and will Africa with its fragile economic base survive the current crisis?
In answering some of these patinent questions surrounding the world economies, we [...]

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